Handle and locking member for pasteboard containers and the like



Feb. 22, 1938. sElFER 2,109,034

HANDLE AND LOCKING MEMBER FOR FASTEBOARD CONTAINERS AND THE LlKE Filed Sept. 29, 1934 INVENTOR ATTORNEY Patented Feb. 22, 1938 "UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE HANDLE AND LOCKING MEMBER FOR PASTEBOARD CONTAINERS AND THE LI E Application September 29, 1934, Serial No. 746,180

3 Claims.

The object of the invention is to provide a carrying handle for use with pasteboard or paper containers usually made from fiat stock and folded into their desired shape, the handle being of a character that will permit it being readily attached to the container; to provide a handle made from the same stock as the container, but so constructed that it is reinforced where gripped by the handle, so that there may be no danger, in ordinary use, of its breaking; to provide a reinforced construction of handle which willlcave smooth edges throughout the hand-engaging area to avoid the likelihood of cutting the fingers of the user; to provide a handle construction of the kind indicated which may be readily stamped 0 out and folded into the desired form, thus providing for not only a simple but a'cheap construction; and generally to provide a pasteboard container attachment of the kind indicated which provides for effectively locking the container, in addition to providing a carrying means therefor.

With this object in view. the invention consists of a construction and combination of parts, of which preferred embodiments are illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein;

Figure 1 is a perspective view of a conventional pasteboard or paper container showing the invention applied in operative position.

Figure 2 is a view similar to Figure 1 but showing the container in partially open position.

Figure 3 is a sectional view through the upper wall of the container in the plane of the handle.

Figure 4 is a transverse sectional view in the plane indicated by the line 44 of Figure 3.

Figure 5 is a plan view of one form of handle blank.

Figure 6 is a perspective view showing the blank of Figure 5 folded.

Figure 7 is a plan view of still another form of handle blank.

Figure 8 is a perspective view showing the blank of Figure '7 in folded position.

Figure 9 is a plan view of the blank of the preferred form of handle.

Figure 10 is a perspective view of the blank of Figure 9 in folded condition.

The invention is designed to be used as an element to provide a carrying means for pasteboard containers where either two flaps fold down upon each other in the closing operation, or where the two sections close one into the other, as shown in Figure 2 of the drawing, when the end or top I2 of one section overlies the top wall ll of the other. The wall I4 whether it be a folding flap in itself or an end wall of the container is provided with transverse slots of a width approximating the thlckness of the handle and of a length equal to the width of the hand-engaging portion of the handle. y

In any case, the handle is made of flat stock but may be stamped, as shown in Figure 5, with the terminal arrow-shaped extremities l5. being scored longitudinally to provide the fold lines l8 so as to provide the wing portions H. The arrow heads H5 at their widest points equal the combined width of the handle and wing portions ll, the blank being slit adjacent its extremities to separate the ends of the wing portions from the arrow heads. The wing portions are then folded in, as shown in Figure 6, so that the thickness of the handle is the double thickness of the stock used. The handle thereby becomes reinforced and the edges are smooth. throughout their length, so that there is nothing to irritate the fingers or hand of the user when employing the device.

In that form of handle shown in Figure 5, while the hand carrying area is of double thickness, the heads l5 are of single thickness, but those portions of the heads extending laterally beyond the edges of the handle may be folded in in attaching the handle, so that the heads may be inserted through the slots in the container, when the previously folded in portions spring back to their original shape and the handle thus becomes locked in the flap or end wall ll of the container.

The flap or end wall I2 is locked by means of the handle because of being provided with a slot or opening Id of a width equal to the length of the slots in the flap or wall l4 and equal in length to the spacing of said slots in the wall I4. In forming the slot I8, projections l9 are left on the edges, these projections being arranged in pairs adjacent the ends of the slots I8 so that they must be sprung from their normal plane when the handle is inserted through the slot ll. The handle is thus forced past the projections l9 so that it extends through the wall or flap l2 in the spaces defined by the pairs of projections I9 and the ends of the slot I8. The projections I9 constitute the locking feature of the device in connection with the handle.

In that form of handle shown in Figure 7, the plan of the handle in Figure 5 generally is carried out with the exception that the handle portion proper is of double thickness by reason of the blank being cut with an extension 20 similar in form to the section 2| but omitting the wings. The section 20 is then folded down longitudinally on the section 2| and the wings 22 section 20 is formed with heads as well as the main section 2|. This reinforced form of handle is used identically as that form shown in Figure 5. The preferred form of handle shown in Figure 9 effects the same result, so far as reinforcement is concerned, as that form shown in Figure 7, but the blank is made approximately three times the width of the actual handle, so as to provide a main section 24 and Wing sections 25 of the same width as the main section, the one wing section being folded under against the main section, and the second wing section folded under against the first. The blank is cutto provide the arrow heads 26 at its extremities and is also formed to provide the half heads 21 at the extremity of each wing section. But in folding, the half head sections of one wing lie against the head of the main section on the opposite side from that with which the particular wing is connected. The construction, however, provides for dual thickness of heads with this particular form of reinforcement.

The two forms of handle shown in Figures 8 and 10 are attached and employed in the same way as was described in connection with the form shown in Figures and 6.

The invention having been described, what is claimed as new and useful is:

1. A handle of the kind indicated comprising a blank constituting a main portion and an extension foldable down against the main portion, both the extension, and the main portion being formed with tapering shaped heads, and the main portion being formed with lateral wings foldable down against the extension, the heads being of greater width than the main portion at their points of juncture with the latter to provide shoulders.

2. A handle of the kind indicated comprising a blank constituting a main portion, an auxiliary portion superimposed thereon, the main portion and the auxiliary portion being formed with tapering-shaped heads and the main portion being formed with lateral wings foldable down against the auxiliary portion, the heads being of greater width than the main portion at their points of juncture with the latter to provide shoulders.

3. A handle of the kind indicated comprising a blank folded to produce a three-ply hand-hold structure, two of said plys being formed with tapering-shaped heads, said heads being of greater width than the main portion of said plys at their line of juncture with the latter, to provide shoulders whereby the heads are of two-ply and the main portion of three-ply.

MORTON ELIAS SEIFER. 

